EP0566918B1 - Dispositif d'étiquetage de récipients - Google Patents

Dispositif d'étiquetage de récipients Download PDF

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EP0566918B1
EP0566918B1 EP93105572A EP93105572A EP0566918B1 EP 0566918 B1 EP0566918 B1 EP 0566918B1 EP 93105572 A EP93105572 A EP 93105572A EP 93105572 A EP93105572 A EP 93105572A EP 0566918 B1 EP0566918 B1 EP 0566918B1
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Wolfgang Fiwek
Albrecht Röhrdanz
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Omega Produktions und Getraenketechnik GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/26—Devices for applying labels
    • B65C9/34—Flexible bands
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C3/00—Labelling other than flat surfaces
    • B65C3/06—Affixing labels to short rigid containers
    • B65C3/08—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies
    • B65C3/14—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies the container being positioned for labelling with its centre-line vertical
    • B65C3/16—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies the container being positioned for labelling with its centre-line vertical by rolling the labels onto cylindrical containers, e.g. bottles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1803—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip
    • B65C9/1815—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip and transferred by suction means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1803—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip
    • B65C9/1815—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip and transferred by suction means
    • B65C9/1819—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip and transferred by suction means the suction means being a vacuum drum

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  • the invention relates to a device for labeling containers which are moved past a label feeder by means of a rotary carrier on a circular path and are thereby set to self-rotation, the label feeder being designed as a conveyor belt section essentially tangent to the containers in the transfer area of the labels, the endless conveyor belts rotating around guide rollers as suction conveyor belts closing off a vacuum chamber are formed on their rear side.
  • containers are understood to mean bottles and glasses made of glass or plastic, such as so-called PET bottles, and also cans made of metal for the beverage industry.
  • the labels to be applied can consist of paper or preferably of plastic or a shrinkable polymer, for example polypropylene.
  • a rotating support in the sense of the invention is understood to mean a rotary conveying means, for example a turntable, which, with the aid of numerous holders which move on a circular path and thereby rotate about its own axis, holds vessels, for example in the form of cans, standing or in the form of a bottle with a neck collar hanging on the head side and possibly supporting on the underside.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a device on the container of different container cross-section can be labeled with little technical effort in an economical manner.
  • this object is achieved in that labels can be transferred to the containers of different circumferential dimensions, which are set at a uniform angular velocity, with a conveying speed of the conveyor belts that can be adapted by a control means to the circumferential dimensions of the containers, and that at least one conveyor section of the conveyor belt section adjacent to the transfer area of the labels can be transferred in its setting range the adjusting means, which can be adapted to the container diameter, is provided for transverse positioning of the conveyor belts relative to the rotating container carrier.
  • the advantage achieved by the invention is that with the aid of a labeling device which is independent of the container size or container shape and can easily be adapted to the respective container cross section, problem-free, flexible labeling of vessels of the most varied cross-sectional design is made possible. These advantages are particularly noticeable when labeling containers all round.
  • the labeling device consists of two mutually assigned main units in the form of a label feeder designed as a conveyor belt section 1 and a rotary carrier 2 designed, for example, as a turntable, which can be driven all around in the direction of the arrow 3 and at uniform spacing intervals with holders 4 designed, for example, in the form of turntables for receiving Containers 6, here in the form of bottles, are provided, which can be set in rotation in the direction of arrow 7 by a rotary movement initiated in the base region or with additional clamping in the neck region.
  • the rotary carrier 2 is assigned a schematically indicated inlet star 8 for transferring containers 6 to the rotary carrier 2 and an outlet star 9 for removing containers 6 from the rotary carrier 2.
  • an adhesive application unit 11 is provided which, as in the exemplary embodiment shown, for realizing all-round labeling of the containers 6 with a first application means in the form of a spray head 12 for applying an initial glue directly onto the container 6 and with a second application means in Form of a glue roller 13 for applying a final glue to the beginning of a label 14 already wound on a container, which is then closed at this point by an overlap with the rear label end to form an all-round label.
  • the glue roller 13 is provided with individual glue strips 16 which are wetted by an application head 17 with a layer of glue.
  • the entire adhesive application unit 11 is provided with an adjusting means 18 for adjusting the angle to specific rotational angle positions of the containers 6 on the rotary support 2.
  • the construction of the conveyor belt section 1 is explained in more detail with the aid of FIGS. 2 to 5
  • the position relative to the schematically indicated rotary support 2 in a label transfer area 19 in FIG. 2 is related to a certain average container size 6A, the conveyor belt section 1 affecting the container circumference.
  • 6B and 6C are dashed lines indicating smaller or larger container diameters, on which the conveyor belt section 1 can be adjusted in a manner described later.
  • the conveyor belt section 1 is composed of a plurality of conveyor belts 21 running parallel to one another, of which more or fewer conveyor belts are used depending on the width of the labels to be processed.
  • the entire conveyor belt section 1 is fixed by an upper housing plate 22 and a lower housing plate 23, only the lower housing plate 23 being shown in FIG. 2 and the upper housing plate 22 being omitted.
  • the conveyor belts 21 are guided around a drive roller arrangement 24, a deflection roller arrangement 26 and a common deflection roller 27, the axes of rotation of which are aligned perpendicularly or parallel to the uprightly conveyed containers 6.
  • the drive roller arrangement 24 can be driven by a motor 28 which is controllable in speed via a drive belt 29 and a pulley 31 such that the conveyor belts 21 in the label transfer area 19 run in synchronization with the rotary carrier 2 and with the containers 6 in the direction of the arrow 30.
  • the drive roller arrangement 24 has a separate drive roller 32 for each transport belt 21, which meshes with teeth 33 of the conveyor belt 21 in the side region. All drive rollers 32 are firmly wedged with a drive shaft 34.
  • the deflection roller arrangement 26 consisting of an equal number of deflection rollers 36 for the conveyor belts 21 has a common axis 37 on which the deflection rollers 36 are freely rotatable. All conveyor belts 21 are designed as suction belts, which is indicated in FIG. 5 by suction bores 38. To hold the labels 14, the conveyor belts 21 are guided in an area upstream of the label transfer area 19 via a suction box 39, to which a negative pressure can be applied via suction nozzle 41.
  • the conveyor belts 21 are guided over a support rail 42 made of spring band steel.
  • the spring band 43 is fastened with two lateral side strips 46 delimiting a recess 44 for a deflection roller 36 of the deflection roller arrangement 26 to a cylinder body 47 which is firmly wedged with the deflection axis 37.
  • the spring band is guided around by means of two side strips 49 delimiting a recess 48 for a drive roller 32 around guide disks 51 which are freely rotatably mounted on the drive shaft 34 and tensioned by means of a tension spring 52.
  • the spring band 43 is provided with a sliding support 54 which directly guides a conveyor belt 21 and which is attached to fixing bolts 56 with a slot which also forms the vacuum chamber 53.
  • the negative pressure is applied via suction ports 57, which are embedded in the spring band 43.
  • tabs 58 are also riveted onto the spring band 43.
  • the conveyor belt section 1 In order to adapt to different smaller or larger container sizes 6B or 6C, for example deviating from the illustrated container size 6A, the conveyor belt section 1 must be adjusted both with regard to the transport speed of the conveyor belts 21 and their transverse adjustment relative to the rotating beam 2 required. In order to adapt the conveying speed of the conveyor belts 21 to the corresponding peripheral speed of the smaller or larger containers 6B or 6C rotating according to a fixed turning program, the speed of the motor 28 can be changed by a control device 59 depending on the respective container size.
  • the drive roller arrangement 24 and the deflection roller arrangement 26 are connected to an actuating linkage which forms a parallel guide and is composed of the following elements:
  • the drive roller arrangement 24 is mounted on a rocker arm arrangement 61, which is normally firmly clamped to a fixed axis 62 of the housing plates 22 and 23 by means of screw bolts 63.
  • the deflection roller arrangement 26 is also connected to a rocker arm arrangement 64, in that the connection carrier 65 is rigidly connected with the aid of a screw bolt 66 inserted into the cylinder body 47 of the deflection roller arrangement 26.
  • a fork 67 supporting the axis of rotation 37 of the deflection roller arrangement 26 is connected to the suction box 39.
  • the rocker arm arrangement 64 is normally firmly fixed by means of clamping bolts 68 on a clamping axis 69 between the housing plates 22 and 23.
  • the clamping axis 69 simultaneously forms bearing points for a tensioning lever 71 assigned to each conveyor belt 21, which on the one hand carry a tensioning roller 72 acting on a conveyor belt 21 and on the other hand are prestressed by a tension spring 73 acting on the suction box 39.
  • the connection carrier 65 is provided with a clamping screw 74 which penetrates the rocker arm arrangement 64 and the fixed housing plate 22, the penetration within the housing plate 22 being designed as an elongated hole 76.
  • the rocker arm assemblies 61 and 64 are connected to one another by means of rotary joints 77 and 78 via a coupling member 79.
  • the lower part of the rocker arm assembly 61 is connected to a scale plate 81 which is relative to a fixed one Mark 82 takes corresponding rotary positions with the adjustment of the conveyor belt section 1, the scale plate 81 having a scale graduation 83 based on the container diameter.
  • the screw bolts 63 on the axis 62, the clamping bolts 68 on the clamping axis 69 and the clamping screw 74 passing through the elongated hole 76 are loosened.
  • the rocker arm assembly 64 and thus the deflection roller assembly 26 as far in the guide of the elongated hole 76 and at the same time via the coupling member 79 under control of the adjustment of the scale graduation 83 relative to the mark 82, the rocker arm assembly 61 with the drive roller assembly 24 can be pivoted so far that the Swivel the conveyor belts 21 in the label transfer area 19 and thus the entire conveyor belt section 1 about the axis of the outer deflection roller 27 transversely to the rotary support 2 until the respective container diameter comes into tangential contact.
  • the labeling device works as follows:
  • the containers 6 transferred to the rotary support 2 at a defined pitch by the inlet star 8 are on their conveying path to the label transfer area 19 in the direction of arrow 3 in the intermediate position shown in dashed lines in FIG. 1 during their own rotation in the direction of arrow 7 at a defined circumferential point by the Spray head 12 is provided with an initial glue for the all-round labels 14, which are also fed to the transfer area 19 at a certain pitch by the conveyor belts 21 will.
  • the label beginning of the all-round label 14 is pressed onto the previously applied glue point.

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  1. Dispositif d'étiquetage de récipients qui, au moyen d'un support rotatif, sont amenés à passer, sur une trajectoire circulaire, à côté d'un dispositif d'amenée d'étiquettes et sont alors mis en rotation propre, le dispositif d'amenée d'étiquettes étant réalisé sous la forme d'un chemin à bandes transporteuses qui est essentiellement tangent aux récipients dans la zone de transfert des étiquettes et dont les bandes transporteuses sans fin, circulant autour de rouleaux de guidage, sont réalisées sous forme de bandes transporteuses à aspiration qui ferment une chambre de dépression par leur côté arrière, caractérisé en ce que des étiquettes (14) de différentes dimensions circonférentielles peuvent être transférées sur les récipients (6) mis en rotation propre à une vitesse angulaire uniforme, avec une vitesse de transport des bandes transporteuses (21) qui est adaptable, par un moyen de commande (59), aux dimensions circonférentielles des récipients, et en ce qu'au moins une partie de transport du chemin (1) à bandes transporteuses, voisine de la zone (19) de transfert des étiquettes, est munie de moyens de réglage (61, 64), dont le domaine de réglage est adaptable au diamètre des récipients, pour le positionnement transversal des bandes transporteuses par rapport au support rotatif (2) des récipients.
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